Twitter Eventually Won’t Display Instagram Photos on Site

Instagram, a photo-sharing startup that Facebook bought this year for what was about $1 billion at the time, has disabled support for images through Twitter’s “cards” function.

For now, the images simply appear cropped improperly in Twitter. Eventually all Instagram photos in Twitter will link to the Instagram website, CEO Kevin Systrom said at the LeWeb technology conference today.

Systrom essentially wants users to click through to Instagram itself.

“I think this is an evolution of where we are with where we want links with our content to go,” Systrom said. “We want that to be on Instagram.com because we think that’s a better user experience,” he said.

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